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πομφόλυξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πομφόλυξ πομφόλυγος

Structure: πομφολυγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pomfo/s

Sense

  1. a bubble

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἤδη ποτὲ πομφόλυγασ ἐν ὕδατι ἐθεάσω ὑπὸ κρουνῷ τινι καταράττοντι ἀνισταμένασ; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 19:2)
  • τὰ δὲ πλεῖστα τῶν θεαμάτων παραλιπὼν ἔφη τὰσ ψυχὰσ τῶν τελευτώντων κάτωθεν ἀνιούσασ πομφόλυγα φλογοειδῆ ποιεῖν ἐξισταμένου τοῦ ἀέροσ, εἶτα ῥηγνυμένησ ἀτρέμα τῆσ πομφόλυγοσ; (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 12:3)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν κοῦφόν ἐστι τὸ ἐκ Διὸσ ὕδωρ καὶ ἀερῶδεσ καὶ πνεύματι μεμιγμένον ὁδηγεῖται τε καὶ ἀναπέμπεται ταχέωσ εἰσ τὸ φυτὸν ὑπὸ λεπτότητοσ, διὸ καὶ πομφόλυγασ ποιεῖ τῇ ἀναμίξει τοῦ ἀέροσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 2 5:1)
  • πομφόλυγοσ δίκην νυκτὸσ κεκόσμηται. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 29 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bubble

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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